Eco-disasters, caught on film!

Warner Bros. / Associated Press

Eco-disaster: Overfishing is decimating wildlife in Antarctica. Solution: Our wingless protagonist teaches his penguin pack to dance; the dancing is filmed by scientists who determine that the penguins are trying to communicate. What are those feet saying? Stop over-fishing the waters, humans. Real-life solution? Sustainable fishing laws and enough money to enforce them.

Eco-disaster: Overfishing is decimating wildlife in Antarctica. Solution: Our wingless protagonist teaches his penguin pack to dance; the dancing is filmed by scientists who determine that the penguins are trying to communicate. What are those feet saying? Stop over-fishing the waters, humans. Real-life solution? Sustainable fishing laws and enough money to enforce them. (Warner Bros. / Associated Press)

Eco-disaster: Oil company corruption/killing the land Solution: For Steven Seagal, a cool demeanor, a bit of stealth and lots of fists. An ex- CIA agent stumbles upon a plot to take the land from the Eskimos, and he's put in danger because of it. Environmentalists thought there was too much violence, industrialists thought the anti-machinery message was wrong. Regardless, Seagal's character got the word out about corruption.

Eco-disaster: Oil company corruption/killing the land Solution: For Steven Seagal, a cool demeanor, a bit of stealth and lots of fists. An ex- CIA agent stumbles upon a plot to take the land from the Eskimos, and he's put in danger because of it. Environmentalists thought there was too much violence, industrialists thought the anti-machinery message was wrong. Regardless, Seagal's character got the word out about corruption. (Warner Bros.)